Tag: Barclays

“Top executives need to be paid a lot to be willing to do their demanding role. Company performance depends almost entirely on the top leadership’s capability. Ethics doesn’t pay, what matters is short term rewards for stakeholders.” These three widely used assertions about business sound increasingly threadbare, unsupported by credible […]

Time to go easy on the banks, argues the head of the CBI. Let’s take bankers “off the naughty step.” How persuasive is this plea in behalf of a much tainted profession? No too convincing say some: “A little longer on the naughty step will benefit the banks” went […]

Let’s talk about noodles! Food giant Nestle in India, is currently battling to preserve its instant noodles brand Maggi. This is a long-standing favourite of millions of consumers. Surprising evidence the noodles contained unsafe levels of lead and traces of monosodium glutamate (MSG) has proved a direct challenge to the […]

Leaders sometimes speak up. Ethical business leaders most definitely speak up, though not enough do. A sure way to fail as a leader in today’s demanding corporate environment is to keep quiet when you should be doing the opposite. Speak up about what though? How far should progressive business leaders […]

Wearable gadgets that track your heart rate, temperature or some other measure of health such as blood pressure are currently proving popular. If only we could have one that gives a quick reading on the health of company compliance programs. Too often the main health check of programs is an […]

Early philosophers were supposed to have asked: “how many angels can dance on the point of a needle?” If they did, it was certainly futile since nobody knew anything worth knowing about either angels or needles. While we know how much banks have been fined in recent years, like the […]

Shock, horror! Soon Barclays will soon have one of its most senior bankers devoting—wait for it—half his time to managing talent. The chairman of the bank’s global finance and risk solutions will be acquiring this new role in March. [1] You might understandably be surprised or perhaps cynical at this […]

Three persistent company leadership myths haunt the ethical scene of large corporations. Each has some claim to credibility–but no longer. It’s time to dump these popular fictions, relegating them to oblivion. 1 The Rogue Employee Excuse Whenever a major company suffers a serious lapse in ethical behaviour a favourite form […]

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